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I-S Va[riant].V. Plate 5 from the suite of 6 entitled 'Six Variants'.

Print
1969 (made)
Artist/Maker
Ives-Sillman, Inc. (printer)
Sirocco Screenprints (printer)
Wadsworth Atheneum (publisher)
Josef Albers (maker)
Place of origin
USA (made)

Format rectangular (landscape) with nesting rectangles of colour. Included within this pattern is a bar shape with 'towers' or uprights at either end, also consisting of overlayered or nesting bands of colour. Colours predominantly[greys/ black.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleI-S Va[riant].V. Plate 5 from the suite of 6 entitled 'Six Variants'.
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
Print - Josef Albers: I-S Va.V. From the suite Six Variants. 1969
Physical description
Format rectangular (landscape) with nesting rectangles of colour. Included within this pattern is a bar shape with 'towers' or uprights at either end, also consisting of overlayered or nesting bands of colour. Colours predominantly[greys/ black.
Dimensions
  • Each sheet height: 70.9cm
  • Each sheet width: 91.4cm
  • Printed surface height: 61cm
  • Printed surface width: 70.7cm
Style
Abstract, Perceptual
Copy number
13/150
Marks and inscriptions
Albers '69 I-S Va.V 13/150 (Signed, dated, inscribed with title and numbered in pencil. Blind stamped with publisher's mark)
Credit line
Given by the Josef Albers Foundation
Production
I-S = Ives Sillman. This prefix was used for an open-ended series of prints produced by the publishing house Ives Sillman.
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue Raisonné: Nicholas Fox-Weber [Ed.] Brenda Danilowitz: The Prints of Josef Albers 1915-1976. Hudson Hills Press, New York. 2001. Cat. no. 192.5
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.63:5-1994

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Record createdApril 1, 2009
Record URL
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